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Speaker 1: why are they replacing all of the toilets in this
Speaker 1: apartment complex? It's true many cities have conducted a massive
Speaker 1: drive to replace older toilets with new water saving models.
Speaker 1: Here's why. A family of four can consume something like
Speaker 1: three four hundred gallons of water per day on things
Speaker 1: like bathing, cooking, drinking, laundry, and dishwashing. Old toilets use
Speaker 1: about five gallons or twenty leaders per flush. When you
Speaker 1: consider that a normal person flushes a toilet seven or
Speaker 1: so times a day, you can see that a family
Speaker 1: of four consumes more than a hundred and forty gallons
Speaker 1: of water per day flushing alone. Depending on the article
Speaker 1: you're reading, the water consumption of toilets represents between thirty
Speaker 1: fifty percent of the water consumed by a household each day.
Speaker 1: The new toilets installed in your apartment use one point
Speaker 1: six gallons or six leaders per flush. If you replace
Speaker 1: those five gallon per flush toilets with these new one
Speaker 1: point six gallon per flush toilets, you save a huge
Speaker 1: amount of water. Something like a hundred gallons per day
Speaker 1: per household for a city. A big reduction like that
Speaker 1: means that you can delay the construction of new reservoirs
Speaker 1: and new sewage treatment plants. That's a huge incentive to
Speaker 1: replace all the old toilets. For more on this and
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